This is the blog home for musician Maurice "Mo" Egeston from St. Louis, MO. Mo currently leads Mo E All-Stars, Coco & Mo featuring CocoSoul and Mo E3(Trio) and he is a member of Brothers Lazaroff. Past projects include Urban Jazz Naturals, Vargas Swing, the remix project and UG Project.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Elizabeth McQueen Meet Brothers Lazaroff

Elizabeth McQueen and Brothers Lazaroff want to make an EP together, and they'd like you to be a part of it.

Elizabeth McQueen and Brothers Lazaroff have been
playing music together for so long that we've become as close as family.
Now, we'd like you to become part of that family. We'd like to invite
you to join us as we embark on a new project. Laugh with us as we make
mistakes. See how the studio process works. Watch us as we make
decisions not just about the music, but about the visual and video
aspects of the project. Explore with us as we navigate making music
together while living 800 miles apart.In 2008, Elizabeth put out
"The Laziest Girl in Town." In January 2012, Brothers Lazaroff remixed
two songs, just to see how it went.It went really well.

So
well in fact that we want to finish the project. Our goal is to make a 5
song EP, although if we exceed our funding goal we'd love to do more
songs. The dollar amount we've put together covers the recording,
mixing, and mastering costs for the project. It also covers the
production costs for CD and Vinyl copies, as well as promotional costs
for the project.Though we call these remixes, they're actually
more like reworkings of the songs. We take the original tracks and
build upon them, often rewriting and re-recording a large part of the
instrumentation. It's a pretty involved process, but one that has
produced work we're all incredibly proud of. You can here the first two
songs we recorded here:

But
we want more than just your help in paying for the costs of the
project. The seismic shifts of the digital age have changed the mandate
for musicians. It's no longer about us creating in secret, and then
releasing our work for the sole purpose of selling it. Now we can
involve anyone who wants to be in the creative process. We can give you
insight into the collaboration involved in pre-production and the
sometimes nerve wracking always rewarding recording process through
video updates and blog posts. You can watch as we discover the depth and
breath of how we want the record to sound and look. We'll even let you
know how we're navigating this Kickstarter campaign, which is new for
all of us. We get to communicate directly to you which means we get to
create a community around a project, rather than just trying to generate
a buzz.

Plus you get the music and, depending on what level you
choose to pledge at, a customized voicemail greeting and/or limited
edition T-shirts and/or limited edition screen print posters. Maybe even
a house concert!

It's exciting. And we can't wait to get started!

We hope you'll join us and hope you'll celebrate the fact that now we can do more with music than we ever could before.